Chapter 51 led the army to attack the city of Tongwan

The sharp scimitar slashed heavily at Zhang Changxun's chest, and the sturdy Mingguang armor blocked this fatal blow for him. Although the scimitar did not break through the heavy armor, Zhang Changxun still had a stuffy head and chest, and he was dizzy.

Blood –

Everywhere you look, there is a blood red everywhere.

Zhang Changxun took a deep breath, held the horizontal knife in his hand stiffly, and shouted at the swarming Turkic soldiers: "Come on...... Turkic wolf cubs...... Ye Ye Zhang Changxun ......"

Looking at the city wall, Zhang Changxun, who was already at the end of the crossbow, was less than 800 soldiers of the Tang Army. A smile finally appeared on Ashina Sheer's face.

However, the Byzantine consul Cassily Barsi, who was watching the battle, was not as relaxed as Ashina Sheer, but was even more worried.

The Battle of Toyoshu, compared to the Byzantine Empire, could only be regarded as a tactical combat mission. There were not a thousand castles as small as Toyoshu Castle in the Byzantine Empire, but at least eight hundred. In my heart, if a Roman legion of the Byzantine Empire (the standard Roman legion had ten brigades, between 4,500 and 6,000 men), faced with a Turkic attack of the same size, I am afraid they would not last three hours.

However, the Tang army in Fengzhou City held out for four days. When the gentle slope was built, the Tang army lowered the rolling logs on the city wall, and each rolling log could always take the lives of dozens or hundreds of Turkic soldiers. When the rolling logs on the walls of Fengzhou City were exhausted, the Tang soldiers still did not give up.

They dismantled the beams, sawed them into a foot and two feet long, tied them together with four or five beams, stuffed with tiny wooden stakes in between, and then, still like rolling logs, inflicted severe bruises on the Turkic attacking troops.

In just four days, the Turkic Ashina Sheer's headquarters paid the price of more than 8,000 dead and more than 5,000 disabled, which exhausted the Tang army's rolling wood and oil.

Now the Turks finally saw the dawn of victory.

Ashina Sheer looked at Cassily Balsi with a relaxed face and smiled: "At most, there is still half an hour, and we can sit in Toyosu City and drink!" ”

Cassily Balsi asked suspiciously, "I heard that there are many castles like Fengzhou in the Tang Kingdom!" ”

"Not bad!" Ashina Sheer nodded and said, "There are a total of three hundred and sixty-seven military states like Fengzhou in the Tang Kingdom!" ”

Hearing this, Cassily Balcy's face became even more ugly, a simple mathematical problem could not be difficult for him, three hundred and sixty-seven military states, according to each of which paid as many as tens of thousands of casualties.

I am afraid that by that period, the Turks would have died out.

Cassily Balsi's mind unconsciously came to his mind with his memories of the Tang Kingdom, and in the texts of the Byzantine Empire, this once coexisted with the glorious Roman Empire and the world's four superpowers. Originally, the Kushan Empire was defeated by the Bada and then replaced by the Sassanid Empire.

According to the classics, the Bada Empire is a nomadic people who were defeated by Huaxia, and they are also the defeated generals of the Huaxia Kingdom, but this subordinate worships the generals and actually kills a pair of the four superpowers in the world!

At this moment, a huge cry erupted from the city walls.

I saw that there were a lot of reinforcements on the city wall, but these reinforcements were all people in the city, and even young women were fighting with the Turks with weapons.

Whenever a Tang woman was killed by the Turks, Ashina Sheer showed a look of pity and muttered: "It's a pity, the beauty of the Tang woman is simply wonderful, Your Excellency the Honorable Consul, wait for Ben Khan to conquer Fengzhou City and give it to ten Tang women......"

At this time, boom boom boom......

The sound of the earth shaking sounded.

Ashina Sheer followed the prestige and saw a black line appear on the southern horizon, and as time passed, this black line grew bigger and thicker.

Slowly, this black wave is getting closer and closer, and they can all see the dignity of this army clearly.

The black armor of this large army, at the front of which were more than 500 fierce sentinels, and the cavalry on the horse controlled the horses with their legs, showing that they were not inferior to the Turkic knights' riding skills.

Behind them were more than 1,500 cavalrymen with spears, hooked and sickle spears in their hands, and the black blades of the spears were actually close to three feet long. This kind of hook and sickle with a lance on the head of the gun makes people hurt when they look at it.

Ashina Sheer's face became extremely ugly.

There is only one army in the world with this pair of equipment, and that is the descendant of Chen Ying, the general of the Tang Hussars.

Chen Ying looked at the piles of corpses in front of him, the Tang army soldiers fighting bloodily on the city wall, and the Tang army battle flag looming in the billowing smoke, so he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thank God, it's not too late!" ”

Yang Ze, the governor of Lingzhou beside him, was also relieved and said: "The city is not broken, the main force of our army is still there, thank God!" ”

Zhang Changxun, who was originally determined to die on the city wall, looked at the big fire fluttering in the distance, and he shouted excitedly: "Soldiers, our reinforcements are here, drive the Turkic wolf cubs down!" ”

The Tang soldiers of Fengzhou City were desperate, they let out a terrifying roar from their chests, grabbed their horizontal swords, raised their spears, and rushed towards the Turkic army soldiers who emerged on the city wall, which was a Jedi assault.

In the crackling rain of arrows and terrible screams, the soldiers of the Turkic army were killed by the soldiers of the Tang army and retreated. The Turkic soldiers, who had been slain, watched in horror as these crazy guys rushed down the gentle slope from the city wall, and in the next second, their heads broke off their necks and flew out in a whirl...... Just now, the charge of the Turkic army was like a bamboo, and the Tang army was powerless to fight back, and now the Tang army officers and soldiers are also like a bamboo, but this time the broken side was replaced by the Turkic army.

Ashina Sheer threw his horsewhip to the ground in anger, knowing that his attempt to conquer Toyosu Castle had been defeated.

The officers and men of the Don Army did not immediately attack, but stopped. Start the whole team as if no one was around. When the Turkic soldiers under the city of Fengzhou saw this scene, their lungs exploded.

Cassily Balcy stared at the high-spirited Tang Army Dingyuan Army. The Dingyuan Army was the elite formed by Chen Ying when he was the governor of Lingzhou in the second year of Wude. In Cassily Balsey's eyes, this is indeed a rare elite, well-equipped and morale-high, far surpassing any opponent he has ever faced before. I'm afraid that the most elite cathars in the Sassanid Empire can probably compete with them.

The officers and men of the Dingyuan Army turned over and dismounted and quickly formed a phalanx. At the front were three rows of crossbowmen, followed by a row of spearmen and shieldmen, and soon a hedgehog formation was formed. The lancers of the Dingyuan Army retreated from both flanks, seemingly preparing to open up the distance and charge, and a series of tactical movements came very smoothly, and they were generally smooth, and they didn't know that they had gone through tens of thousands of trainings.

The Battle of Fengzhou allowed Cassily Balsi to see the tenacity and tenacity of the officers and men of the Tang Army, and now he saw the elite field troops of the Tang Army.

Obviously, these infantry were only more than 2,000 people, and the infantry who came from behind were only five or six thousand. But why did the Turks' faces change so much, and the sound of their teeth chattering sounded around them?

Cassily Balsi is strange, this kind of is too unreasonable.

It's just that Cassily Barsi didn't know that the Turks were not afraid of the Tang army, and the same number of Turks could not defeat the Tang army, but in the case of a large number, there was still a chance to win. It's just that the army under Chen Ying is all freaks, and what they are best at is fighting more and less.

Chen Ying traveled lightly from Chang'an City, and was originally going to lead the Dingyuan army to directly take down Tongwan City, but before Chen Ying arrived in Tongwan City, he was attacked by the Turkic Tabuyye Hu Khan Ashina Sheer.

Fengzhou is almost the military town of the Tang Dynasty, except for all the soldiers, that is, the families of the soldiers, there are few ordinary people, as long as a few bold businessmen are active here.

However, in the face of Ashina Sheer's attack, Zhang Changxun is really not an opponent. In desperation, Chen Ying had no choice but to temporarily change his plan and lead the Dingyuan army to cross the Yellow River to the north and come to the city of Fengzhou.

Seeing the completion of the whole team, Chen Ying lifted the horizontal knife and stepped forward, shouting: "The old rule, crush these fools to General Ben!" ”

"Crush these fools!"

More than 1,500 hook and sickle cavalry of the Dingyuan Army let out a violent roar in unison, flattened the hook and sickle, and instigated their war horses, like a black hurricane, rushing straight towards the front of the Turkic army.

At the same time, the sound of war drums began to beat.

The spear warrior held the spear diagonally and trotted forward. In fact, they had long been accustomed to the hook-sickle cavalry charging forward, disrupting the enemy's formation, while the infantry went up to harvest the heads.

Cassily Balsi was stunned as he looked at the swarming black wave.

He subconsciously thought that Tang Jun was crazy, and all of them were crazy. If you look at the total number of troops, the Turks still have more than 40,000 soldiers at this time, while the cavalry on the opposite side is less than 2,000.

Take one dozen twenty.

Unless the head is not in its right, there is no such thing in a war.

However, at this time, the soldiers of the Dingyuan Army were like madmen, and they rushed into it without blinking an eye.

Cassily Balcy's eyes almost fell to the ground: "Just ...... Just rush up? Don't want to die?

But the Turks' faces changed dramatically, and the strange hook and sickle made them suffer enough. However, the hook and sickle cavalry of the Dingyuan army swept in like a lightning speed.

Some of them turned their horses and ran, and some raised their bows and arrows to pour arrows at the hooked and sickle lancers of the Dingyuan army.

Nothing unexpected happened, though. The inferior riding bows in their hands shot at the officers and soldiers of the Dingyuan Army, and they immediately stung like a hornet, and more of them slipped directly to the ground, but at this time, the hook and sickle cavalry of the Dingyuan Army had already crashed into them with men and horses.

The four-meter-long hook and sickle easily pierced their bodies and lifted them off their horses. The important thing is that this black wave is unstoppable, and I don't know how many Turkic warriors were stabbed by their spears, and the front chest went in and out of the chest, and almost all of them crashed into the Mongolian knights in the cavalry array of the Tang Army!

However, at this time, these Turkic cavalry who grew up on horseback could not control the war horses at all, and the crazy war horses either rushed straight towards their own army formation, or rushed towards the cavalry wall formed by the lancers, anyway, no matter which way they rushed, they only had to be worn on the tip of the spear! Braving sporadic arrows, the Hook Sickle Lancers knocked them over without much effort.

The Rolling Iron Rider pointed directly at the wolf-tailed Da Yan of Ashina Sheer.

In just one turn, the Turkic cavalry was dealt a devastating blow, shouting and neighing. The Turkic general's eyes widened in disbelief, watching the Tang cavalry roll upside down like a tide, and the Turkic warriors were swept away like mustard, only to feel that the world was spinning.

"Oh God!" Cassily Balcy felt that he was suspicious, what kind of hellish style of play was this Tang Jun, who could actually occupy an absolute advantage in cavalry combat! What the hell is wrong with this world!

Ashina Sheer's war horse was also frightened, kicking and jumping, and several of his own soldiers couldn't hold it. When a Turkic general saw that the hook-sickle lancers were already rushing towards him like a mountain and a wall, he couldn't help but cry out: "Protect the Khan, protect the Khan!" ”

However, at this time, Ashina Sheer's army was completely disorganized, and it was impossible to form an effective line of defense, and it was in vain to shout.

Fortunately, Ashina Sheer also had a group of pro-soldiers around him, these pro-soldiers were composed of the young children of the Ashina family, they were still awake until this time, seeing this, they stabbed the out-of-control war horse with a sword, and then lined up, the person in front held a huge shield and half-knelt on the ground, ready to bear the most crazy impact, and the person behind put the spear on the shoulder of the shield hand, and the tip of the spear was aimed at the high-speed rushing war horse.

This is a relatively effective tactic of rejecting cavalry with infantry, which the cavalry hates the most, but this tactic is used by the Turkic cavalry, who boast of cavalry shooting, which is a bit ironic no matter how you look at it.

The black storm is coming in a blink of an eye, and the one who rushes to the front is, of course, Chen Ying.

Chen Ying shrugged off the spear-made line of defense, slightly lowering the shaft of the hooked scythe, the tip of which grazed the edge of the giant shield and stabbed into the shield soldier's throat, the force of which shattered his cervical vertebrae.

In the Turkic shield array, the man falls backwards and the shield flies upward. The lancers in the front row all made the same move, lowering the shaft of the spear, and with the absolute advantage of the hook and sickle in length, the shield soldiers were overturned, and then the flying horse stepped over the Turks.

Some hapless hook-scythes lancers were stabbed by spears and overturned by wounded horses, but the vast majority of Turkic warriors who tried to confront the lancers with spears in their arms found their home on the sharp spear tips of the lancers, and this weak line of defense was shattered in an instant, and the lancers poured in through the gap and rushed straight to the wolf's tail.

The warriors of the Ashina family were also red-eyed, and they rushed over to fight with the lancers, and some of the soldiers who were dismounted from their horses even swung their swords at the horse's legs, using all the combat skills they had learned to try to knock down the hook and sickle lancers, and protect their Ye Hu Khan, even if they were cut down by the hook and sickle lancers layer by layer!

Taking this opportunity, Ashina Sheer barely controlled his horse and retreated in panic under the protection of several soldiers.

Chen Ying watched Ashina She'er retreat in a hurry and let out a long sigh.

Everything has priorities, and there is no need to rush to annihilate Ashina Sheer. The key is the existence of Liang Shidu, which really has a fatal impact on the Northern Expedition of the Tang Dynasty.

Because of the relationship between races, there are really not many people in Datang who are working for the Turks now. However, the Han people under the command of Liang Shidu could use the appearance and appearance characteristics of the Han people to infiltrate Guanzhong and find out the movements of the Tang army.

Right now, the most important thing on the eve of the Northern Expedition to eliminate Liang Shidu.

Chen Ying couldn't take a break, and he couldn't care about cleaning up the battlefield.

Leaving a place of wounded soldiers of the Dingyuan Army, leaving the wounded war horses, and then, collecting the war horses left by the Turks on the battlefield, but in a quarter of an hour, the soldiers of the Dingyuan Army formed a team again, and this time they turned to gallop in the direction of Tongwan City.

Zhang Changxun finally moved the sand and gravel blocked at the gate of the city and came to the battlefield outside the city, but found that Chen Ying had long since disappeared.

Zhang Changxun looked at a wounded Tang soldier and said, "What about General Chen?" ”

The wounded soldier stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of Tongwan City and said, "General Chen has already led his army to attack Tongwan City!" ”